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.TH DERB
1 "7 Mar 2014" "ICU MANPAGE" "ICU @VERSION@ Manual"
.SH NAME
.B derb
\- disassemble a resource bundle
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B derb
[
.BR
"\-h\fP, \fB\-?\fP, \fB\-\-help"
]
[
.BR
"\-V\fP, \fB\-\-version"
]
[
.BR
"\-v\fP, \fB\-\-verbose"
]
[
.BI
"\-e\fP, \fB\-\-encoding" " encoding"
]
[
.BI
"\-\-bom"
]
[
.BI
"\-t\fP, \fB\-\-truncate" " \fR[ \fPsize\fR ]\fP"
]
[
.BI
"\-s\fP, \fB\-\-sourcedir" " source"
]
[
.BI
"\-d\fP, \fB\-\-destdir" " destination"
]
[
.BI
"\-i\fP, \fB\-\-icudatadir" " directory"
]
[
.BI
"\-c\fP, \fB\-\-to\-stdout"
]
.IR bundle
" \.\.\."
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B derb
reads the compiled resource
.I bundle
files passed on the command line
and write them back in text form.
The resulting text files have a
.B .txt
extension
while compiled resource bundle source files typically have a
.B .res
extension.
.PP
It is customary to name the resource bundles by their locale name,
i.e. to use a local identifier
for the
.I bundle
filename, e.g.
.B ja_JP.res
for Japanese (Japan) data,
or
.B root.res
for the root bundle.
This is especially important
for
.B derb
since the locale name is
not accessible directly from the compiled
resource bundle,
and to know which locale to ask
for when opening
the bundle.
.B derb
will produce a file whose base name is the base name of the compiled resource file itself.
If the
.BI
"\-\-to\-stdout\fP, \fB\-c\fP"
option is used, however, the text will be written on the standard output.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BR
"\-h\fP, \fB\-?\fP, \fB\-\-help"
Print help about usage
and exit.
.TP
.BR
"\-V\fP, \fB\-\-version"
Print the version of
.B derb
and exit.
.TP
.BR
"\-v\fP, \fB\-\-verbose"
Display extra informative messages during execution.
.TP
.BR
"\-A\fP, \fB\-\-suppressAliases"
Don
't follow aliases when producing output.
.TP
.BI
"\-e\fP, \fB\-\-encoding" " encoding"
Set the encoding used to write output files to
.IR encoding .
The
default encoding is the invariant (subset of ASCII
or EBCDIC)
codepage
for the system (see section
.BR
"INVARIANT CHARACTERS" ).
The choice of the encoding does
not affect the data, just their
representation. Characters that cannot be represented in the
.I encoding
will be represented
using
.BI \eu
"hhhh"
escape sequences.
.TP
.BI
"\-\-bom"
Write a byte order mark (BOM) at the beginning of the file.
.TP
.BI
"\-l\fP, \fB\-\-locale" " locale"
Set the
.I locale
for the resource bundle, which is used both in the generated text
and
as the base name of the output file.
.TP
.BI
"\-t\fP, \fB\-\-truncate" " \fR[ \fPsize\fR ]\fP"
Truncate individual resources (strings
or binary data) to
.I size
bytes. The
default if
.I size
is
not specified is
.B
80
bytes.
.TP
.BI
"\-s\fP, \fB\-\-sourcedir" " source"
Set the source directory to
.IR source .
The
default source directory is the current directory.
If
.B -
is passed
for
.IR source ,
then the
.I bundle
will be looked
for in its
default location, specified by
the
.B ICU_DATA
environment variable (
or defaulting to
the location set when ICU was built
if
.B ICU_DATA
is
not set).
.TP
.BI
"\-d\fP, \fB\-\-destdir" " destination"
Set the destination directory to
.IR destination .
The
default destination directory is specified by the environment variable
.BR ICU_DATA
or is the location set when ICU was built
if
.B ICU_DATA
is
not set.
.TP
.BI
"\-i\fP, \fB\-\-icudatadir" " directory"
Look
for any necessary ICU data files in
.IR directory .
For example, when processing collation overrides, the file
.B ucadata.dat
must be located.
The
default ICU data directory is specified by the environment variable
.BR ICU_DATA .
.TP
.BI
"\-c\fP, \fB\-\-to\-stdout"
Write the disassembled
.I bundle
on standard output instead of into a file.
.SH CAVEATS
When the option
.BI \-\-bom
is used, the character
.B U+FEFF
is written in the destination
.I encoding
regardless of whether it is a Unicode transformation format (UTF)
or not.
This option should only be used with an UTF encoding, as byte order marks
are
not meaningful
for other encodings.
.SH INVARIANT CHARACTERS
The
.B invariant character set
consists of the following set of characters, expressed as a standard POSIX
regular expression:
.BR
"[a-z]|[A-Z]|[0-9]|_| |+|-|*|/" .
This is the set which is guaranteed to be available regardless of code page.
.SH ENVIRONMENT
.TP
10
.B ICU_DATA
Specifies the directory containing ICU data. Defaults to
.BR @thepkgicudatadir@/@PACKAGE@/@VERSION@/ .
Some tools in ICU depend on the presence of the trailing slash. It is thus
important to make sure that it is present
if
.B ICU_DATA
is set.
.SH AUTHORS
Vladimir Weinstein
.br
Yves Arrouye
.SH VERSION
1.
0
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C)
2002 IBM, Inc.
and others.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR genrb (
1)